Surfing is a thrilling and dangerous activity in which a personbalances on a board and rid
Surfing is a thrilling and dangerous activity in which a person
balances on a board and rides the surface of a big, crash ocean wave. 【S1 ______.
Channel surfing is a bit different. In this activity a person sits on a couch
and pushes the button of a television remote-control devices many times a
minute check and recheck all the channels. In the United States, channel 【S2】______.
surfing is by far the more popular sport. When television first replaced
radio, in the 1950s. channel surfing was known. Back then, there were 【S3】______.
only a few stations. Viewers had their favorite shows and watched it 【S4】______.
devotedly all the way through. In fact, studies showed that when a family
sat down to watch a favorite program at 7 p. m. , they stayed with the
same channel rest of the evening. With the coming of the cable television. 【S5】______.
dozens of channels now offer a great variety of featured films, situation 【S6】______.
comedies, news, weather, talk, science shows, documentaries, and
advertising. Facing with so many choices, viewers often become quiet and 【S7】______.
feel a need to check, in all the other stations. 【S8】______.
Some studies show that men m a unique U.S. household usually want 【S9】______.
to hold the remote control and surf the channel: women usually like to
choose one program and watch through. 【S10】______.
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